What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

Andrei my dear Friend and devoted music lover, many thanks for this recommendation.
So guess what I did? Yes, yes, close, extremely warm, right I went to my site JPC, and guess what, yes again, humor me, this fine romantic disc you want me to hear, nay buy, is OOP!
This I dislike about good discs, they are always OOP.

[Harry]

What a rainy morning here, looks like Noah's flooding disaster, so a wet Goodmorning to you all, our as we say in the North, doar komt waot woater noar beneen".

Hern Franz Krommer.

And his jolly Clarinets Quartets, at least six of them no less.

Performed by the following experts:
Dieter Klocker, on the Clarinet, and his band, "Consortium Classicum",
they play the rest of the Winds, tis stormy up there.

This fine twofar box with the Clarinet Quartets by Krommer are a delight for the ear, firstly because Holger Schlegel, from MDG recorded it, and secondly by this expert band the fruits are phenomenal, they know there craft, and exercise it to the full, with a ease and panache that astounds me, and probably you too. It is so highly effective, that you enjoy every note as they flow out of their hands.
Two cd's for 8,00 euro is quite a bargain I would say. Snap it up before it is gone.

[wintersway]

Good morning/day to all!

[Harry]

Good morning/day to all!

O, that's a Franz too you know.

[Valentino]

Have you heard HvK's '63 recording of the same work? To me, it's even more volatile. The slow movement isn't as good as the '77 though. 

No, not 9. I only have (heard) 3 and 5 from that cycle. Must get more interpretations (Cleveland/Szell is my other one), though. Split fiddles would be nice, as well as believable soundstaging. Surely there is a LvB9-thread in the archives or the old archives?

Now Mahler: Sym 6. BBC PO/Jarvi, from NRK web radio.

[Harry]

Arnold Bax.

Piano Works, Volume II.

Ashley Wass, Piano

A Brit that doesn't make it easy for you. A tough nut to crack, as always with the piano works from Bax. He writes music with the door closed in your face, and having thrown away the key, you have to break it open with a bit of force and coaxing at the same time. Don't threaten it, for than its over and out! You have to listen to it more than once and live with them as in a relationship. I find it to be troublesome, to say the least, but then again I love this inaccessible music.
The sound and performance is fantastic.

[Valentino]

More web radio.

Schubert: Der Winterabend. Bostridge/Andsnes.

Quite agreeable, more so than the Mahler, which was difficult to work to. But I doubt Gustav had people working on computers as his audience when he wrote his 6th.

[BachQ]

Brahms 4 (Kleiber)
Tchaik 4 (Bernstein)
Bruckner 4 (Jochum)

0:)

[Harry]

Ottorino Respigni.

Pini di Roma.

Fontane di Roma.

Feste Romane.

Philadelphia Orchestra/Ricardo Muti.

Well you all know this fabulous music, so explanation is not necessary right?
It is State of the Art recording no less, and what Muti does with this music elevates it high in the sky. Rapturous playing, juggling fearlessly with details, thunderous and magnificent it is.

[Kullervo]

I've just recently purchased this interpretation. Kullervo, is this your first experience with these pieces? If not, do you think they compare favorably to others? I just found Jarett's take a little to deliberate/expressionistic for my taste...

This is the first I've heard of these pieces. I intend to buy a set soon (this one is on loan from the library). Any recommendations?

[Mark]

The third best (IMO, after Sveshnikov and Hillier) performance on disc of Rachmaninov's All-night Vigil: Rostropovich conducting the Choral Arts Society of Washington, with Maureen Forrester and Gene Tucker in the solo parts. Sublime. 0:)

[George]

The third best (IMO, after Sveshnikov and Hillier) performance on disc of Rachmaninov's All-night Vigil: Rostropovich conducting the Choral Arts Society of Washington, with Maureen Forrester and Gene Tucker in the solo parts. Sublime. 0:)

Inspired by Mark:



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[greg]

this one again


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[Harry]

Robert Volkmann.

Serenade No. 1 in C major, opus 62.
Serenade No. 2 in F major, opus 63.
Serenade No. 3 in D minor, opus 69.*

Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss/Johannes Goritzki
Catherine Tunnell, Violoncello.*

Well if you love the Serenades of Dvorak/Brahms/Suk/Tchaikovsky, there is no escaping Robert Volkmann, for they are as beautiful as the ones of his colleagues, absolutely smashing I would say, and that is a understatement.
Very refined sound from Reimund Grimm, the engineer from MDG.
The performance is without fault.

[Rod Corkin]

Today on my DAP:

Handel's oratorio Alexander Balus, the only recording of it. Adequate performance, a little 'proper' as with all Robert King's efforts (has he got off the child molesting rap?). But I can't stand Catherine Denly's matronly warble.

[Harry]

Carl Reinecke.

Serenade in G minor, opus 242.

Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss/Johannes Goritzki.

This has definitive a wow factor. Seldom heard, and that is a bloody shame, for it is good, by Jove it is.
Can easily stand competition with the best, mind you!
Fine sound and performance.

[Bogey]

Today on my DAP:

Handel's oratorio Alexander Balus, the only recording of it. Adequate performance, a little 'proper' as with all Robert King's efforts (has he got off the child molesting rap?). But I can't stand Catherine Denly's matronly warble.

Due to you bringing Handel up in your other thread Rod:

Handel Ballet Music from Alcina and Il pastor fido Gardiner/English Baroque Soloists (MHS)

Good morning all.

[Hector]

Today on my DAP:

Handel's oratorio Alexander Balus, the only recording of it. Adequate performance, a little 'proper' as with all Robert King's efforts (has he got off the child molesting rap?). But I can't stand Catherine Denly's matronly warble.

No 'rap.' He got sent down for four years and deservedly so. Wait until those cons get there hands on him. He'll be singing castrato once he removes his genitals from his mouth.

Would you buy a CD by this paedo?

Ries' Symphonies 3 and 5. The latter contains all the Beethoven you may ever need. Vigorously performed in Suisse under Howard Griffiths for CPO, who else?

I am so impressed with these that I've ordered another two from the same stable. They arrive tomorrow, hopefully, because there is a postal strike on Friday!

Followed, again on CD (no time for R3 today), 'Prometheus', the selection of orchestrated Wolf songs from Banse, Henschel and Nagano. Boy, did this composer suffer, and I can suffer along with him...

[Bogey]

LOL....What is with the pic Harry?

[Harry]

LOL....What is with the pic Harry?

Well I wanted to color things up a little bit Bill!
And get attention for this fine disc of course.
Goodmorning to you my friend!